AI safety researchers call for funding amid compute and talent constraints
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-08-15
AI safety researchers are appealing for funding on X, highlighting that the field is currently constrained by both limited personnel and computing resources. Specifically, studying safety pretraining and interactions with reinforcement learning at scale is described as very expensive, underscoring the resource challenges in AI safety research.
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